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Wahisietel
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[#0MGFV81HT] said :
While we're all biding our time till our eventual nonexistence, check out Legend Arts on Twitter. I requested him to do fanart of Xau-Tak and he did it and it's awesome!

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Very nice artwork.
I mean it's not remotely accurate, but it is very nice. :P

It's far too humanoid, even if it does have a couple of tentacles. It's more of an anthropomorphic sea creature than an actual sea creature. Xau-Tak is anything but human, which is probably why it has a vaguely humanoid Ambassador.

I picture Xau-Tak looking like a Karamthulhu (or squid/octopus) on steroids. A huge sea monster with thousands of squirming tentacles. Perfect for swimming through oceans of writhing undead corpses.

Ancient Drew said :
Is it possible that the penguins are affiliated with Xau-Tak? And before you ask, no I am not messing.

If Mother Mallum and the Sea Slugs are connected to Xau-Tak, then by extension Captain Marlin would be too, so yes, it's possible.

Personally, I like the idea of the pillar that killed Mother Mallum being an artefact of Xau-Tak. You never were our brightest star, Khazard. 'Vermin slaughtered like lambs'? What does that even mean?

22-Sep-2016 14:38:24 - Last edited on 22-Sep-2016 14:40:45 by Wahisietel

Uncle Harper
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I think, the truth is, we (the adventurer/world guardian) defeated and sealed Xau-tak away. How? With the enchanted key. It's already been shown that we can go into the past and effect events their with the key. This would explain several things. 1. Why the surviving members of the Glory of Zaros know our name thousands of years before we are born. 2. How the balance elemental has seen our death already. We died in the Tsunami after sealing Xau. It is likely that there will be future quest content with Xau where he is too powerful to defeat and we must return to the past to do it. Odds are we realize this has happened before and so we must do things differently. We already know that in Children of Mah, we will play a role in the betrayal which occurred in the past. Meaning the Enchanted Key will be brought up again. The key being a heirloom of Erin means that Erin may be a relative of ours entrusted with the key to Xau-tak's seal. This is a working theory but I believe it fits. I have seen the dark universe yawning, where the black planets roll without aim;
Where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or lustre or name.

22-Sep-2016 15:26:32

Raleirosen

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Uncle Harper said :
I think, the truth is, we (the adventurer/world guardian) defeated and sealed Xau-tak away. How? With the enchanted key. It's already been shown that we can go into the past and effect events their with the key. This would explain several things. 1. Why the surviving members of the Glory of Zaros know our name thousands of years before we are born. 2. How the balance elemental has seen our death already. We died in the Tsunami after sealing Xau. It is likely that there will be future quest content with Xau where he is too powerful to defeat and we must return to the past to do it. Odds are we realize this has happened before and so we must do things differently. We already know that in Children of Mah, we will play a role in the betrayal which occurred in the past. Meaning the Enchanted Key will be brought up again. The key being a heirloom of Erin means that Erin may be a relative of ours entrusted with the key to Xau-tak's seal. This is a working theory but I believe it fits.
This is actually very sound. I like it. Patrolling Lore FC almost makes you wish for a Great Revision.

23-Sep-2016 05:44:47

Nolhiir
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Uncle Harper said :
I think, the truth is, we (the adventurer/world guardian) defeated and sealed Xau-tak away. How? With the enchanted key. It's already been shown that we can go into the past and effect events their with the key. This would explain several things. 1. Why the surviving members of the Glory of Zaros know our name thousands of years before we are born. 2. How the balance elemental has seen our death already. We died in the Tsunami after sealing Xau. It is likely that there will be future quest content with Xau where he is too powerful to defeat and we must return to the past to do it. Odds are we realize this has happened before and so we must do things differently. We already know that in Children of Mah, we will play a role in the betrayal which occurred in the past. Meaning the Enchanted Key will be brought up again. The key being a heirloom of Erin means that Erin may be a relative of ours entrusted with the key to Xau-tak's seal. This is a working theory but I believe it fits.
That sounds fairly possible. But does this mean that we have a child in the past? :P

Though I doubt the point will be to do things differently. That would seem like a cop-out. Newest Disciple of Xau-Tak

23-Sep-2016 15:08:06

Wahisietel
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Mod Raven has said that they are very reluctant to do any more time travel plots (with us doing the time travel, at least) as recently as The Light Within, since it cheapens storylines if we're just able to go back and change things.

So that being said, I think we can rule out us time travelling again in connection to Xau-Tak. Considering how many other unremarkable characters are capable of it to some degree, it's pretty likely that Xau-Tak was simply able to see the future, or it just took note of us when we were messing around in the First Age. You never were our brightest star, Khazard. 'Vermin slaughtered like lambs'? What does that even mean?

23-Sep-2016 15:18:52

Hguoh

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Wahisietel said :
Mod Raven has said that they are very reluctant to do any more time travel plots (with us doing the time travel, at least) as recently as The Light Within, since it cheapens storylines if we're just able to go back and change things.

So that being said, I think we can rule out us time travelling again in connection to Xau-Tak. Considering how many other unremarkable characters are capable of it to some degree, it's pretty likely that Xau-Tak was simply able to see the future, or it just took note of us when we were messing around in the First Age.

I don't think they'll pull a time travel schtick with Xau-tak. That being said, I don't think we should discount the possibility so readily since (despite the reluctance Mod Raven reported) they just told us at Runefest that we'd be traveling back in time to Zamorak's coup/the Betrayal during CoM.

23-Sep-2016 15:28:24 - Last edited on 23-Sep-2016 16:04:56 by Hguoh

Wahisietel
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I don't think they actually said anything about time travel. It could just be that we'll "be there" in a similar fashion to how we are at the Battle of Barendir in Birthright of the Dwarves. Or maybe we'll be playing as Zamorak or Viggora or someone. You never were our brightest star, Khazard. 'Vermin slaughtered like lambs'? What does that even mean?

23-Sep-2016 15:48:17

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23-Sep-2016 16:13:23

Wahisietel
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Good to see that he didn't betray my already low expectations.

Anyway, we'll probably be seeing Xau-Tak stuff with the Nomad's Elegy stuff on Monday. For some reason I get the feeling that Mod Raven will be cruel and hide the only Xau-Tak reference in Zanik's time-locked dialogue, so we won't be able to see it for a year.

Or even worse, maybe it'll be like in the original quest, and the Xau-Tak reference will trigger completely randomly in a cutscene you're only supposed to see once. You never were our brightest star, Khazard. 'Vermin slaughtered like lambs'? What does that even mean?

23-Sep-2016 16:21:37 - Last edited on 23-Sep-2016 16:21:57 by Wahisietel

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